Koshary

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[glow=red]Koshary[/glow]

[glow=black]Ingredients[/glow]

2 cups rice
1 ½ cups lentil
2 onions sliced into rings
3 spoons of oil or butter
Salt - pepper

[glow=black]Ingredients for tomato sauce[/glow]

1 cup squeezed tomato
2 spoons butter
2 spoons vinegar
Peeper - hot pepper
1 cup of water

[glow=black]Steps: [/glow]

Start with making the tomato sauce
Fry the butter or the oil then add to it squeezed tomato then keep heating till its fully cooked.
Add the water and leave it to boil, then lift it from the fire and add the salt, pepper the vinegar and the hot peeper.
Wash both the rice and the lentil separately
Boil the rice and the lentil in water separately
Separate both from their waters and mix them in one container
Fry the butter or the oil and in it fry the onion then remove it and pour the remaining oil or butter on the rice and the lentil
Heat the koshary for 10 minutes

[Ebikatsu]

That's strange
your recipe doesn't have pasta?

This is how I make mine

Pan 1
Blast 1 kg tomatoes, 5 cloves garlic, 1 small onion, teasp black pepper, 1 red chilli, teasp salt, tabspn tomato paste in a blender till smooth.
Add this to a pan with 4 tabspns olive oil and simmer gently till oil rises to the top.

Pan 2
Boil 1 cup brown lentil till soft then drain and put in a dish.

Pan 3
Fry a cup of vermicelli pasta in 3 tbspns oil till colour darkens a few shades to golden brown. Then add 2 cups water and 2 cups of washed, drained basmati rice, put lid on and steam gently till rice is cooked.

Pan 4
Take a 1/3rd pack of spaghetti and break into 2 inch pieces.
Add this to 500 grm macaroni pasta and cook till soft, then drain.

Pan 5
Slice 2 large onions thinly. Place in a plastic bag with a tabspn flour in it and shake till they are coated.
Drop clumps of this into the deep fat fryer till golden.
Remove from oil and sprinkle straight away with salt.

Assembly

Scoop a cup of the rice mix and put in a plate.
On top scoop a cup of the pasta mix.
Put a tabspn of the lentils on top of that.

Pour some of the tomato sauce over that.

Add a few cooked chick peas, then sprinkle the fried onion on top.

You can then add a little vinegar mixed with garlic and herbs on top of that.


Should resemble this

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/koshary2.jpg

[Hurghadapat]

was just going to point that out Ebikatsu but you got there before me but why make it as it's so cheap to buy out there,anyway i don't eat it to calorie laden

[Ebikatsu]

It's a great cheap filler, but I like to make it myself coz the koshari shop is miles away from me